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[adamsapple]

Let's hear it. What are some game settings that you always toggle off/on when ever you start a new game.

For me it's a couple that I always turn off if the game gives me an option to do so.

- Motion Blur: If it's a 60 FPS game, I always turn it off. Motion smoothing is pointless above 30 FPS IMO
- Screen shake: Some games use a lot of shaking to emphasize action but if given the option, I always turn it off
- Head bobbing: In an FPS, for somewhat similar reasons as above, I prefer a 'stable' image when playing and not the perspective bobbing everywhere. I've had games give me motion sickness from this setting in some games
- Chromatic Aberration: It degrades image quality and makes the edges of the screen look weird. Not every game uses it to the same extent, but I don't like this at all.

 

[kyliethicc]

none usually

the artists shipped it the way it should look

 

[Fbh]

Chromatic Aberration usually looks bad to me so I turn that off.
Film Grain too.

The other stuff I mostly leave as they are by default.

 

[adamsapple]

none usually

the artists shipped it the way it should look

Of course, artistic interpretation aside, a lot of screen shake and/or bobbing can get a bit nauseating (to me at least).

 

[ComputerBlue]

Invert Y because I’m not a lunatic.

Disable motion blur, chrom ab and film grain because it just hurts my eyes.

Decrease sfx audio, increase music volume.

 

[Revolutionary]

Motion Blur: Off
Chromatic Aberration: Off
Lens Flare/Effects (like the dirty lens thing they do in Battlefield): Off
Film Grain: Off

 

[Markio128]

I don’t take much notice tbh. The only options I’ll potentially change are fidelity/performance and audio. The less options the better for me.

 

[winjer]

Motion blur, Chromatic aberration, film grain.
These are not artistic effects, they are just crap smothered on our screens.

Depending of the game and how it uses it: Depth of field, lens flares.

 

[intbal]

I always turn off controller vibration.
I turn the music down to zero most of the time.

 

[AV]

I immediately turn off motion blur in every single game. It's fucking awful and never, ever looks good.

 

[22•22]

Yeah screen shake, head bob and (except for some games) vibration will get turned off. I'll always check out the options menu before starting a game. I mostly keep fucking around with settings during the whole playthrough.

 

[hemo memo]

Subtitles on. That’s it.

 

[RoadHazard]

Subtitles on. I hate games that don't default to this or at least ask you before starting if you want to enable them.

 

[Bartski]

subtitles off

 

[nightmare-slain]

yeah i put subtitles on and make them highly visible. if i can i'll usually make them yellow.

sometimes the audio mix is shit and if a game uses a lot of unusual words then it's confusing. even though i can hear sometimes it doesn't register with my brain lol. it doesn't bother me reading subtitles. i watch everything with them on from games to movies and youtube videos.

 

[SmokedMeat]

Chromatic Abberation
Film grain
Motion blur

 

[fran.fernandez]

None; leave it as Neil Druckmann want

 

[jaysius]

Film grain is 100% retarded in video games, they’ve never been made on film, it’s impossible, it needs to die. I guess it’s an easy ”blur“ filter that some people accept.

Also I turn off any motion blur, chromatic aberration.

 

[Represent.]

none usually

the artists shipped it the way it should look

Amen.

 

[VN1X]

Ant-Aliasing off or as low as it can be. Unless it's not a twitchy or competitive game, then I'll leave it on but even then I like to turn it off as it introduces mouse lag. FXAA is the least impactful in this regard but also makes things look blurrier overall.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

FXAA off, if that's the only form of "AA" it offers.

 

[Bulletbrain]

Film grain is just...urgh. That is the one option that NEVER looks good to my eyes. Then comes CA. Motion blur most of the time I turn off, but in some games can look good.

 

[rofif]

Not much really.
I like motion blur and I think it's deniers are nuts. You need like 240hz/fps to have no need for motion blur

 

[Ulysses 31]

Nothing, I usually crank everything up, motion blur included.

 

[poodaddy]

Film grain is absolutely cancerous. Fuck artist's intent, if you're an artist and you believe your work should be viewed with a film grain, then you don't know how to present your art. Shit gets turned off immediately, 100% of the time.

 

[Comandr]

Chromatic aberration, film grain, and TAA off. FXAA all the way.

 

[Dr. Suchong]

Subs on.
I'm good to go.

 

[Black_Stride]

Subtitles on.
Film Grain - If its a slider low, if not off.
Per Object Motion Blur - MAXIMUM!!!!!!!
FXAA - Off; fuck that vaseline shit.
HBAO+ - tinker with AO settings to see which one the engine agrees with most/ I if I have to inject MXAO or RTGI so be it.

 

[angrod14]

I try to stick to the defaults as much as possible, as to not deviate from the creators original vision.

 

[existensmaximum]

I enable subtitles and switch to fidelity mode.

 

[rofif]

Film grain is absolutely cancerous. Fuck artist's intent, if you're an artist and you believe your work should be viewed with a film grain, then you don't know how to present your art. Shit gets turned off immediately, 100% of the time.

Good film grain is fantastic (resident evil 2 remake) as it completely eliminates gradients issue.

But a lot of people who go into RE games turn off film grain and TAA right aways and it's a mistake.
Re2make is made with both of these in minds. TAA covers the dithering and FXAA fixes banding.
The only resi game with broken TAA and Film grain is Village for some reason. Film grain is just terrible there and TAA does almost nothing

 

[rofif]

Chromatic aberration, film grain, and TAA off. FXAA all the way.

I know there is big anti TAA movement but I don't understand why.
It completely revolutionized image quality. We no longer have to see shimmering. Especially of reflective surfaces

 

[Naked Lunch]

Rumble Off.
Rumble was cool back when it first dropped on like Star Fox 64. Who the hell wants their controller shaking all over the place playing a game in 2022? Annoying and dumb especially on FPS games.

Toggle Crouch On.
No clue why someone would want to hold in an analog stick or button to crouch.

Aim Acceleration Off.
This setting ruins the feel of analog aiming. Console FPS gaming was better when devs designed the aiming without it.

 

[Comandr]

I know there is big anti TAA movement but I don't understand why.
It completely revolutionized image quality. We no longer have to see shimmering. Especially of reflective surfaces

Sure, it reduces shimmering at the cost of making everything look like it’s through a Vaseline filter. This is especially evident in foliage or anything with fine detail. Furthermore the nature of TAA can add ghosting to fast moving objects which is in my opinion a reduction of image quality.

 

[DeepEnigma]

I usually turn down motion blur or completely off in 60fps games that have it a bit too heavy.

I also turn up sensitivity in the joystick X/Y for aiming in most games as well.

 

[rofif]

Sure, it reduces shimmering at the cost of making everything look like it’s through a Vaseline filter. This is especially evident in foliage or anything with fine detail. Furthermore the nature of TAA can add ghosting to fast moving objects which is in my opinion a reduction of image quality.

sure it depends on TAA implementation.
For example, TAA on Death Stranding on pc introduces ghosting/shimmering in foliage but it does not on ps5 (I compared it).
So implementation does matter.
DLSS/FSR/XESS is an evolution of this but if it's not there, I will take TAA with it's issues over jaggies and specular aliasing

 

[Melon Husk]

Off

• Motion blur at high frame rates
  • unless it's fancy per-object blur (see Crysis)
• Chromatic aberration
  • unless it's used sparingly in rare special effects / is integral to the game (see SOMA)
• Temporal Anti-Aliasing if higher quality alternative is available
  • unless the game's art style is designed around TAA and breaks without it (see RE2 remake)

On

• Subtitles, always
• & tweak mouse sensitivity, duh

 

[TonyK]

In Ps5 I usually disable adaptive triggers because I already have a broken controller because of that and I don't want to repeat the experience of sending it to Sony for a replacement. Not because it was a bad experience but because I'm lazy.

 

[Spukc]

Chromatic Aberration usually looks bad to me so I turn that off.
Film Grain too.

The other stuff I mostly leave as they are by default.

Film grain gives texture to the image.
TLOU did it amazing

 

[kunonabi]

I usually just need to invert Y and turn off motion blur if I can. In later RE releases I usually have to put the run button back on Square since Capcom decided to be annoying shits.

 

[lh032]

fidelity mode change to performance mode.
Disable motion blur and abbre chrome or some shit.
Enable subtitle
Switch to highest difficulty as possible (except 1 lives mode)

 

[The_Mike]

Everything that worsen the image quality.

 

[Mister Wolf]

Motion Blur, CA, and Depth Of Field all gotta go. Sometimes I even turn off TAA if I'm playing at 4K.

 

[Wildebeest]

First for me is to turn the music off. I'm sensitive to audio and most games have music which is way too loud, dramatic and generally bad taste.

 

[FloopCookiefix]

Settings I remove from my video gaming presence:
-Motion Blur? gotta go
-Chromatic Aberration? please exit the premises, sir
-Film Grain? not in my house

I just personally like my games to look as clean/crisp as possible. Occasionally, I'll turn these back on in some games just to see if maybe I'm missing something, but I pretty much always turn them back off pretty quickly.

As for things I tend to toggle ON or adjust:
-Usually I increase the default FOV and camera speed/sensitivity
-Generally go for Performance mode, but this can depend on the game

 

[It's all in the wrist]

Menu - turn everything off - increase the FOV - performance mode. Enjoy game.

 

[nkarafo]

As many post process effects i am allowed to turn off.

 

[bender]

refresh rate locked at 30

 

[TheStam]

I used to work with photoediting and have spent quite a lot of time editing chromatic abberation out of images. Maybe that experience damaged me, but I really don't like this effect, I find it weird that people would add it to their games in the first place.

 

[Beer Baelly]

I dont mind ca but I dislike mb